[CPEO-MEF] "Three Los Alamos (NM) lab workers contaminated in accident"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Three Los Alamos lab workers contaminated in accident

By Rebecca Moss
Santa Fe New Mexican
October 27, 2017
 

Three workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory were contaminated on the job last month when an accident released radioactive material into the air and sent it spreading through a wing of the lab’s plutonium facility.

It was the second time in four weeks that lab workers were exposed to radioactive particles at the facility, and the same crew was involved in both events, according to a weekly report from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, an independent adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Sept. 23 incident was the most recent in a series of accidents at the lab, including one in August that violated federal safety protocol established to prevent a runaway nuclear chain reaction. In that case, reports said, workers had mishandled radioactive metals.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/three-los-alamos-lab-workers-contaminated-in-accident/article_32d1f5e5-5752-57c2-b7c3-fd279c9769a3.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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